The Mountain View-based search company reported "a very strong start to 2013," according to CEO Larry Page. Google's revenue for the quarter came in at $13.97 billion, up 31 percent year-over-year. Quarterly profit stood at $3.35 billion, up from $2.89 billion for the same quarter in 2012.

The search leader's rate of paid clicks was up 20 percent from a year previous, while the price advertisers pay per click was down about four percent. Google's big moneymaker, advertising revenue, was up 16 percent.

Google's Motorola division continued to lose money in the last quarter. Motorola Mobile posted an operating loss of $271 million on revenues of $1.02 billion. Google is selling Motorola's set-top box business to Arris Group for $3.25 billion in a deal that is expected to close some time in April.

Thomson Reuters-surveyed analysts had projected that Google would post earnings of $10.66 per share and revenues of $14.31, according toThe Wall Street Journal. Shares closed down 2.13 percent on Thursday at $765.91, though they were up 1.22 percent in after hours trading as of press time.

Microsoft's CFO Peter Klein will be leaving at the end of June, the company announced in its conference call. The company will name a new CFO from within its current financial team within the next few weeks.

AppleInsider will be providing immediate coverage of Apple's quarterly results and conference call on April 23.

That is surprisingly good, considering all the negativity surrounding Windows 8 and general decline in laptop and desktop sales.

Any details where the growth comes from? Numbers of sold copies over OEM and retail compared to last year? I can imagine OEMs making more money by reducing quantity but improving quality (and margins) of sold machines, but MS makes money per sold copy either way, so from their perspective quantity should mostly be more important. Unless they managed to sell more Pro/Ultimate copies at expense of lower SKUs.

That is surprisingly good, considering all the negativity surrounding Windows 8 and general decline in laptop and desktop sales.

Any details where the growth comes from? Numbers of sold copies over OEM and retail compared to last year? I can imagine OEMs making more money by reducing quantity but improving quality (and margins) of sold machines, but MS makes money per sold copy either way, so from their perspective quantity should mostly be more important. Unless they managed to sell more Pro/Ultimate copies at expense of lower SKUs.

I'll take credit for the MS profit jump. I bought an OEM license of Windows 7 for bootcamp.

Sorry gang.

There's one game that I would like to buy and play (AOE II HD), and it's Windows only, but I just can't get myself to actually buy a Windows install, no way in hell. If it was $19, then maybe I might consider it.

I get an increase in revenue of 17.69%. That looks pretty damn good to me. Compared 3Q2011 to Q32012 was only 6%. Why are these news outlets (save for AI) trying to paint a bad picture that isn't there?

I get an increase in revenue of 17.69%. That looks pretty damn good to me. Compared 3Q2011 to Q32012 was only 6%. Why are these news outlets (save for AI) trying to paint a bad picture that isn't there?

WINDOWS revenue was written as flat, those numbers are for Microsoft as a whole, they were making an OS point it seems.

WINDOWS revenue was written as flat, those numbers are for Microsoft as a whole, they were making an OS point it seems.

Ah yes, it does say Windows revenue in the title on The Verge. Mea culpa. Still, not a fan that they pull out a negative for the title when there are clearly positives. For instance, what other areas accounted for the substantial rise if Windows was flat YoY? Or, how was Windows able to remain flat YoY when Windows 8 is such a complete mess?

Ah yes, it does say Windows revenue in the title on The Verge. Mea culpa. Still, not a fan that they pull out a negative for the title when there are clearly positives. For instance, what other areas accounted for the substantial rise if Windows was flat YoY? Or, how was Windows able to remain flat YoY when Windows 8 is such a complete mess?